- In 1857 the Central Park Commission was founded, and Olmsted was encouraged to apply for the position of superintendent of the park...
- Central Park is the largest green space in New York, with over 20 playgrounds, manmade lakes and ponds, arched bridges, and extensive walking paths.
- The oldest known building in Central Park is this modest fortress, built as a fortification against the British during the War of 1812.
- Central Park’s design was the result of a public competition won by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmstead, the “father of American landscape architecture”...
- Speaking of eats, Central Park's designers may have intentionally included few buildings in their landscape...
- The tide started to turn in 1980 when a group of citizens created the Central Park Conservancy.
- Built during The Roaring Twenties, the Park Central Hotel New York once accommodated and entertained many influential figures—including Jackie Gleason...
- Central Park is a city park with an area of 340 hectares located in the middle of the island of Manhattan, New York City, United States.
- A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side...
- If you never venture north of Times Square, NYC might seem entirely flat, but Central Park will prove otherwise.